"If you're going to do a comic book movie in that vein you really have to get them right. Joss Whedon is a guy that just nails it, Christopher Nolan as well. If they were going to do it like that, yeah it would be interesting to do," he told Empire.

"Working on Green Lantern I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how sort of confused it can all be when you don't really know where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world that comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.

"So at this point I have very little interest in joining that, as always a very good script and great director could turn that around."

Previous reports have suggested that the role of Green Lantern is likely to be recast should Justice League enter production, due to the lukewarm critical reception of Reynolds's take on the superhero.